Thanks for that Brian - it is appreciated. The set of Child I am selling is emphatically not the British poets series!!

Child did that as a sort of "hack-work" by which I mean he was simply paid for writing it (around 1858-59 from memory). It was the researches for that - a lot from secondary sources - which inspired him to do the second work from primary sources which became (if you like) the Child Ballads.

These were published in a limited edition of 1,000 and in ten volumes between 1882 and 1898 in a unbound and uncut set, each one individually numbered. The idea was that you had them cut and then bound yourself after they had all been published.

Bronson´s Traditional Tunes was published 1958 to 1972 but not in equal numbers, so number 4 is rare.

HTH

Dave